Twenty Questions

by McClatchy, J. D.

• ISBN13: 9780231111737
• ISBN10: 0231111738
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

This revised and updated edition of the Wallflower Critical Guide encompasses the careers of up to 600 directors that have worked within the North American film industry, including Canada, since the early 1990s. This edition features new or revised material on 150 directors, and includes coverage of mainstream luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Robert Altman, independent mavericks like Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch, and innovative emerging talents including Todd Field (In the Bedroom), David Gordon Green (George Washington) and Marc Forster (Monster's Ball). This volume thus continues to be a unique reference to the changing dynamics of the world's most consumed cinema.

Table of Contents

Talks Followed by Breakfast: The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942

German Jews and National Socialism: Self-Image and Threat

Exclusion and Discrimination of the Jews in Germany, 1933--1939

Jewish Emigration, 1933--1941

Aryanization and the Jewish Star: German Jews Are Totally Stripped of Their Civil Rights, 1939--1941

Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe: The Beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question

From Antisemitism to Genocide: The Genesis of the Final Solution

Massacre in the East: Einsatzgruppen and Other Killing, 1941--1942Units in the Occupied Territories

The Deportation of the Jews from Germany

Theresienstadt

The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma

Industrialized Mass Murder in the Extermination Camps, by 1942--1944

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